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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Book Release: The Spark of a Feudling by Wendy Knight

My awesome friend, Wendy Knight, is delighted to announce the release of another book in her Fate on Fire series, The Spark of a Feudling, and I'm just as delighted to help spread the word!

About the Book:

Hate can start a war, but a shattered heart can fuel it for
centuries.

Everything Ada does is wrong. She’s the daughter of a Duke
but she isn’t proper or formal. She prefers the company of her
servants—particularly Christian, the boy she’s loved since she was six years
old, and his sister, Charity, Ada’s very best friend in the entire world.

Ada isn’t just the daughter of a Duke. No, she’s the daughter of one of the
most powerful Edren sorcerers alive, and no matter how strong she is, it isn’t
strong enough. Ada will give up almost everything to earn her father’s pride.

Christian has loved Ada since the day his mother became her governess. But two
societies are determined to keep them apart—the aristocracy who say a groom
will never be good enough for a Duke’s beautiful daughter, and the sorcerers
who say a Carules and an Edren can never be together. Christian will do
anything to make Ada his—even drive himself to madness.

When Ada suspects her father of hurting Charity and Christian in his quest for
knowledge, she is torn between loyalty to him, and a fierce determination to
protect them. The division tears her soul and breaks her heart.

The pieces of her broken heart will start a war that can only be stopped by the
death of the most powerful warrior alive by the hand of the boy who loves her.

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**Bonus Story –Feudlings in Peace** Join Ari, Shane, Ada, Christian and everyone they
love as they chase their happily ever after.

Excerpt:

He sprinted down the path, into
the forest, leaping over huge rocks and tree roots and through streams he
couldn’t see but his magic told him were there. He had no idea where he was
going, but there seemed to be a tether from his heart to hers — he always knew
where Ada was. He ran straight to them, nearly colliding with her father’s
guards as he raced through the thick trees.

“What happened to her?” he
bellowed, jerking Ada out of Davis’s bloodstained arms.

“She was hit, saving me,”
Harrison answered. “Can you help her?”

If there had been time, any
time at all, Christian would have paused at that. How exactly had his tiny
little Ada saved the giant Harrison? But there wasn’t time. He laid her on the
thick grass, searching for the wound. But there was so much blood.

“There!” Davis snapped, jabbing
the air above her stomach.

Flames roiled across
Christian’s hands and he held them above her, letting the flames soothe the
skin before he tried to touch it. They swirled through the air, seeping and
mending the broken, charred skin.

“Does she breathe?” Harrison
asked, crouching close to put his face next to her mouth.

Christian ignored him. He
didn’t care if she breathed or not.

She
would breathe, or he would die with her.

“She does.” Harrison sat back,
relieved.

“Can you not heal at all? Stop
the blood flow from her shoulder!” Christian snapped.

Harrison gaped at him. “We’re
Edren. We don’t heal.”

“I’m Carules and I can throw a lirik
if need be,” Christian muttered under his breath, but he couldn’t argue
with them now.

She moaned.

They all froze in shock, and
then redoubled their efforts. Davis jerked his shirt off and held it to her
shoulder while Christian’s blue flames leaped and danced from his hands,
fighting the poison eating through her body.

“Christian. I knew—” she
whispered as her skin healed, leaving only pink burns behind.

“Shhh. Don’t speak. You’re
still very weak.” He moved from her stomach to her shoulder, pushing Davis’
shirt out of the way. It was stiff with dried blood and she shrieked when he
ripped it from the wound. “Forgive me, dear one,” he whispered, his mouth near
her temple, kissing the pain away. “Forgive me.”

Wendy Knight is the bestselling author of the young adult
series Fate on Fire and Riders of Paradesos. She was born and raised in Utah by
a wonderful family who spoiled her rotten because she was the baby. Now she
spends her time driving her husband crazy with her many eccentricities (no
water after five, terror when faced with a live phone call, no touching the
knives…you get the idea). She also enjoys chasing her three adorable kids,
playing tennis, watching football, reading, and hiking. Camping is also big—her
family is slowly working toward a goal of seeing all the National Parks in the
U.S.

You can usually find her with at least one Pepsi nearby,
wearing ridiculously high heels for whatever the occasion. And if everything
works out just right, she will also be writing.